Wire-fence clamp.



No. 762,411. PATENTED JUNE 14, 1904. J. G. HOLLINGSWORTH.

WIRE FENCE CLAMP.

APPLICATION F'ILED JUNE 15.1903.

N0 MODEL.

y 'l r I @AlIor gcys Patented June 14, 1904.

PATENT ()EEICE.

JOSEPH C. HOLLINGSVVORTH, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

WIRE-FENCE CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,411, dated June 14, 1904.

Application filed June 15, 1903. Serial No. 161,581. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH (J. HOLLINGS- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful ire- Fence Clamp, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the means for securing the crossing members in. wire-fences, and has for its object to simplify and improve devices of this character and to produce a clamping means simple in construction, easily applied, and effective in operation.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the parts disconnected. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fences of the class to which the present invention appertains generally comprise spaced line or stay or brace Wires and vertical wires crossing the line-wires at suitable intervals; and to provide a simply-constructed and easily-applied means whereby the wires may be rigidly clamped together at their crossingpoints is the object of the present invention. In some forms of this class of fences the Wires are disposed in reversely diagonal positions, and the present invention is readily applicable to such structures without material change of structure, as will be obvious. A portion of one of the lead or line wires is represented at 10 and a portion of one of the bracewires at 11, the line-wire preferably with a deflection or crimp 12 and the bracewire with a reversely-disposed deflection or crimp 13. It will be understood that the deflections will be spaced apart upon the wires corresponding to their crossing-points, and distances may .wire, fast to the plate, as shown.

be varied to any required extent; but as all the clamp devices are precisely alike one only is shown for illustration.

The clamp-plate is represented at 141 and may be made of any desired shape or form or of any suitable material, butwill generally be of sheet-steel pressed into the proper form, and preferably with intersecting channels 15 16, with a depression 17 at the intersecting points of the channels, as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3.

The channels 15 16 are adapted to receive the wires 10 and 11 and the depression to receive the deflection 13 of the brace-wire, while the deflection 12 of the line-wire lies over the concave side of the deflection 13, as shown.

Clamp-tongues 18 19 are provided to enclasp one of the wires, preferably the line- The tongues are formed by producing spaced clefts transversely of one of the channels and bending the material released thereby outwardly and clamping it around the wire within the adjacent channel, as shown.

Preferably the tongues will be long enough to project through the apertures formed by their removal, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4t, and thus form an additional holding means to materially assist in the grip of the tongue and prevent lateral displacement thereof. By passing the terminals of the tongues through the apertures in the plate all danger of catching the ends of the tongues and bending them outwardly by any obstruction which may come in contact withthe fence is entirely obviated. Bythis simple means a very effective, strong, and durable clamping means is provided which may be readily applied and adapted to all the various forms of wire fences of the class described or of any structure in which crossed wires are employed.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is p c As a new article of manufacture, a wirefence clamp comprising a plate having a pair of intersecting channels extending wholly across its surface and provided at the point of intersection With a depression, and a pair of spaced tongues upstruck from the plate across one of the channels and respectively on opposite sides of and adjacent to the point of intersection of the latter, said tongues being disposed remote from the margin of and producing apertures in the plate and designed to be'folded around a Wire when arranged Within the channel and have their terminals engaged I through their respective apertures.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH O. llOlJLTNGSWORTH.

Witnesses:

J. L. Downs, J OI'IN H. FINKS. 

